Vita Sales Increase, Resident Evil Huge in Japan

As always, Japanese firm Media Create has released its weekly sales data. This week's trove of information covers the week from April 23rd through April 29th, and has been translated by Andriasang.

Nintendo 3DS is still seeing strong sales, though PlayStation Vita had a bit of an uptick as well, likely on the strength of a new PlayStation Vita game seen in the sales data at the bottom of this article. Vita sales are still entirely unimpressive, but it sold over 4,000 more units this week than last week. PSP is also selling much better than it usually does on the strength of some new PSP-centric game offerings.

1.) Nintendo 3DS - 74,282

2.) PlayStation Portable - 22,457

3.) PlayStation 3 - 21,114

4.) PlayStation Vita - 12,299

5.) Nintendo Wii - 9,200

6.) Microsoft Xbox 360 - 1,327

The winner on the software front is the new Resident Evil game (known as Biohazard in Japan) called Raccoon City. Mario Party 9 on Wii and Surge Concerto: Ciel no Surge on PlayStation Vita also did very well.

Overall, the Nintendo 3DS accounted for 7 games on the top 20 list, with PSP raking up 6. PlayStation 3 had three games chart, Nintendo Wii had two games, and then there were two surprises: PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360 both had a game chart each.

1.) Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (PS3, 252,525 [New])

2.) Mario Party 9 (Wii, 152,883 [New])

3.) Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS, 60,313 [302,913])

4.) Surge Concerto: Ciel no Surge (PSV, 33,324 [New])

5.) Conception: Please Give Birth to My Child! (PSP, 29,846 [New])

6.) Steinsgate: Hiyoku Renri no Darling (PSP, 24,849 [New])

7.) Idolmaster Anime & G4U! Pack (Volume 7) (PS3, 17,314 [New])

8.) Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (360, 16,285 [New])

9.) Super Mario Land 3D (3DS, 15,696 [1,534,999])

10.) Dynasty Warriors VS (3DS, 15,578 [New])

11.) Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, 13,578 [1,416,873])

12.) Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! (PSP, 13,241 [New])

13.) Ao no Exorcist: Genkoku no Labyrinth (PSP, 11,939 [New])

14.) Mario Kart 7 (3DS, 11,666 [1,672,424])

15.) Kid Icarus Uprising (3DS, 11,537 [243,095])

16.) Kingdom Hearts 3D (3DS, 9,284 [298,953])

17.) 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume (PSP, 8,484 [321,886])

18.) Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (PSP, 6,647 [118,566])

19.) Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (PS3, 6,323 [146,081])

20.) Wii Sports Resort (with Wiimote) (Wii, 6,239 [925,498])

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